Looks great! The face and eyes especially have a lot of detail for so few colors. However, the dark blue and black around the mouth are a little overpowering, and the lightest yellow color is nigh-indistinguishable from the second-lightest yellow and could probably be dropped without hurting the picture. The upper mane also doesn't look as good as the lower mane and might benefit from being shaded as smaller strands. By the way, are those little bumps on the side of the head ears? If so, they might look better repositioned and facing up so that the insides of the ears are visible, since that's usually how they look on lions.
thank you for the critique! i was thinking the same about the mouth but you're definitely right about the upper mane and ears, thank you for brining my attention to it! n_n i'll keep this in mind for the future.